Conference Agenda

What drives the performance of machine learning factor strategies?

Mikheil Esakia^1,2, Felix Goltz¹

1: Scientific Beta; 2: EDHEC Business School

Discussant: Sebastian Mueller (TU Munich)

Limits To (Machine) Learning

Zhimin Chen¹, Bryan Kelly², Semyon Malamud³

1: Nanyang Technological University, Singapore; 2: AQR Capital Management, Yale School of Management, and NBER; 3: Swiss Finance Institute, EPFL, and CEPR

Discussant: Abraham Lioui (EDHEC Business School)

Newspaper Closures and Trading in Local Stocks

Peter Cziraki^1,2, Jasmin Gider³

1: Texas A&M University; 2: European Corporate Governance Institute; 3: Tilburg University

Discussant: Tina Oreski (ESCP Business School)

When Public Information Goes Private: Analyst Careers and Market Efficiency

Ling Cen¹, Jiang Chen², Chay Ornthanalai³, Christoph Schiller⁴

1: Chinese University of Hong Kong; 2: Peking University; 3: Rotman School of Management; 4: Ohio State University

Discussant: Christoph Sextroh (Carl von Ossietzky University of Oldenburg)

Can Large Language Models Trade? Testing Financial Theories with LLM Agents in Market Simulations

Alejandro Lopez-Lira

University of Florida

Discussant: Kartik Anand (Deutsche Bundesbank)

The Market’s Mirror: Revealing Investor Disagreement with LLMs

Vineet Bhagwat¹, J. Anthony Cookson², Chukwuma Dim¹, Marina Niessner³

1: George Washington University, United States of America; 2: University of Colorado Boulder; 3: Indiana University

Discussant: Doron Reichmann (Goethe Universität Frankfurt)

What Treasury Auctions Reveal About Investor Demand

Fabricius Somogyi¹, Jonathan Wallen², Lingdi Xu³

1: Northeastern University, United States of America; 2: Harvard Business School, USA; 3: Harvard University, USA

Discussant: Utso Pal Mustafi (Frankfurt School of Finance & Management)

China Walls

Tomy Lee¹, Daniel Nathan², Chaojun Wang³

1: Central European University; 2: Hong Kong Polytechnic University; 3: Wharton School, University of Pennsylvania

Discussant: Andriy Shkilko (University of Georgia)

Data Ownership, Data Production, and Lending Market Competition

Chong Huang, Shiyan Wei

University of California-Irvine, United States of America

Discussant: Markus Parlasca (Leibniz Institute for Financial Research SAFE, WU Vienna)

Invoice Digitization and Credit Availability: Hard-Information Effects in Small Business Lending

Yunyue Chen^1,2

1: Ghent University, Belgium; 2: New York University Stern School of Business, USA

Discussant: Fabrizio Core (LUISS University)

The Quiet Hand of Regulation: Harnessing Uncertainty and Disagreement

Daniel Andrei¹, Lorenzo Garlappi²

1: McGill, Canada; 2: UBC, Canada

Discussant: Jan Schneemeier (Michigan State University)

Demystifying Cheap Sustainability Talks: Theory and Evidence

Tianhao Yao¹, Junli Zhao²

1: Singapore Management University; 2: City University of London

Discussant: Stefano Lovo (HEC Paris)

Are New Technologies Replacing the Information Produced by Financial Markets?

Laurent Frésard, Marco Zanotti

Swiss Finance Institute, USI Lugano, Switzerland

Discussant: Naveen Gondhi (INSEAD)

Breaking the Data Chain: The Ripple Effect of Data Sharing Restrictions on Financial Markets

Bo Bian¹, Simona Abis², Huan Tang³

1: University of British Columbia, Canada; 2: University of Colorado Boulder; 3: University of Pennsylvania, the Wharton School

Discussant: Rachel Nam (USI Lugano/Swiss Finance Institute)

The Two-System View of Cognition and Investor Choice

Yang Song¹, Kai Li², Nianhang Xu³, Chunyu Zu⁴

1: University of Washington, United States of America; 2: University of British Columbia; 3: Renmin University of China; 4: Communication University of China

Discussant: Alexander Hillert (Leibniz Institute for Financial Research SAFE and Goethe University Frankfurt)

Facing Default?

Pranav Gang², Marius Guenzel³, Shimon Kogan¹, Marina Niessner⁴, Kelly Shue²

1: Reichman University, Israel; 2: Yale, US; 3: Wharton, US; 4: Indiana, US

Discussant: Simon Rother (University of Mannheim)